Border

On the day of her 24 birthday, Veronika has to take within 24 hours a decision, how her life in the future would look like. One night at the lake is for Veronika like a revolution, which breaks the old rules.

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Cast:

Malwina Buss

Matthias Lier

Maciej Zera

Eillen Osei

Manuel Mairhofer

Robin Krakowski

Script:

Ewa Wikieł

Camera:

Richard Marx

Producer:

Simon Lubinski

Editing:

Wolfgang Gessat

Ewa Wikieł

Sound:

Malwina Buss

Film info

Direction:

Ewa Wikieł

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

Super 16mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

Cinemascope

Sound format:

Wav

Language:

German/Polish/English with german & engl. ST

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

20

Asche

A couple, long past their expiration date; two people who've got nothing to say to each other. But when that is over, after they've split, he wants to hear her say what happened.

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Cast:

Franz Rogowski

Katrin Sommer

Vera Disselhoff

Script:

Christoph Mushayija Rath

Camera:

Constanze Schmitt

Producer:

Tim Oliver Schultz

Editing:

Antonella Sarubbi

Sound:

David Scheler

Film info

Direction:

Christoph Mushayija Rath

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

S16

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

6

Alina

Alina wants to go to a party that could change her life. The peer pressure is so great, that Alina is prepared to risk her entire family's lives for a chance to go. For the game, for life, for death, where's the difference? The film is a snap-shot of a moment between childhood and adult life, a situation, in which growing up is delayed. And it is an outlook at the impact actions can have when you are given responsibility. But not yet. The teens can still defy time and adulthood.

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Cast:

Lucie Rudolph – Alina

Talisa Lilli Lemke – Roksana

Script:

Magdalena Grazewicz

Kristina Kean Shtubert

Camera:

Nicola Alice Hens

Producer:

Kristina Kean Shtubert

Nicola Alice Hens

Sound:

Stephan Bruns

Tom Dittrich

Film info

Direction:

Kristina Kean Shtubert

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production:

2015

Shooting format:

35mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

10

Somewhere else

The 8-year-old Sebastian has never seen his father. In order to meet him, the boy flees into a fantasy world where his parents are still together. However the negative memories of the mother start interfering with the child's illusions. Sebastian has to find the solution somewhere else.

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Cast:

Vin Kumorek

Tinka Fürst

Levente Orbán

Script:

Borbála Nagy

Halina Joanna Rasinski

Camera:

Marianne Andrea Borowiec

Producer:

Margarita Amineva

Editing:

Borbála Nagy

Máté Feles

Sound:

Julius Füg

Music:

Boti Ikvai-szabó

Film info

Direction:

Borbála Nagy

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2016

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

14

Comfort Zone

‘Comfort Zone‘ is the spiritual journey of a young man called Tao who has been driven in an existential crisis. The Christian doctrine of salvation seems to him as worthless as the images provided by media. At the Tempelhof Airport, in the Spreewald and the holiday paradise ‘Tropical Islands‘ the question of the irrevocable rootage of human life is put forward in an always new and different way. Every character Tao meets on his way has got his own conception of the world. But not only for him it is impossible to bring these contradictions into accordance with each other. Step by step the logical seems to get nullified; it turns into the absurd and resigns in the spectacle. Who is looking for a story here has to find or invent it himself.

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Cast:

Boris Gaza – Tao

Matthias Hinz – Freund

Adolfo Assor – Taxifahrer

Jack Woodhead – Musiker

Moez Saziki – Reiter

Jojce Binneboese – Frau des Reiters

Script:

Matthias Lintner

Alexis Waltz

Camera:

Carlos Andrés López

Editing:

Matthias Lintner

Wolfgang Gessat

Producer:

Andreas Jan Gerrit Becker

Sound:

Stefan Witter

Music:

Karin Nakagawa

Film info

Direction:

Matthias Lintner

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2011

Shooting format:

16 mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Language:

German, Englisch, French, Italian, Chinese

Version:

OV

Runtime:

20

The Title died

An impossible love story with a toast Hawaii -- The shy Cornelius and the mysterious Louise are studying Latin. Louise doesn't know yet if she wants to kiss him or to suck his blood. Cornelius has puzzling thoughts about the younger woman. Should he admit his love for her and then incur a penalty? When he notices that she has a vessel of blood upon the table between them, the delicate construct of private tutor and student, man and woman, human and vampire, becomes a dance of death that completely falls to pieces.

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Cast:

Solvejg Schommers – Luise

Valentin Erb – Cornelius

Script:

Julia Penner

Camera:

Claudia Schröder

Sound:

Alonso Lozano

Film info

Direction:

Katharina Rivilis

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2016

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

5.1 Stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

9 minutes

Albacore

A man takes us on a fishing trip to an unspecific place off the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Searching for schools of Albacore tuna the monotonous radio communication of the fishermen are the only spoken words. Through patches of green and grey waters, rocked by the constant swell of the waves the fisherman hooks the fish and pulls them out of the ocean one by one.

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Cast:

Matt Forve

Fisherman

Script:

Emma Rosa Simon

Camera:

Emma Rosa Simon

Producer:

Eva Kemme

Editing:

Katrin Dietzel

Sound:

Emma Rosa Simon

Film info

Direction:

Emma Rosa Simon

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

EX3

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Language:

English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

21

Yelling at goldfish

The film introduces us into a colorful and screaming world. A bubble gum that gets bigger and brighter. We see a house where headstrong characters live. It`s loud, intense, an aggressive summer. Right in the middle we have Lise, our main protagonist. She wishes to go to the lake, an idyllic place she dreams about, far away from her yelling parents and her annoying neighbor. While taking a bath, trying to escape from everyone, she comes crashing down together with the bathtub a floor lower and ends up in her neighbors bathroom. Not quite shocked, but involved in a stressful discussion with her parents she flees from them to her best friend, Timo, wishing to find peace. Yet, even there, there`s hustle and bustle, neighbors demonstrating for vanilla ice cream and a crazy old woman wanting to set her goldfish free. Luckily, Timo lives in an ice cream van. Why not going together to the lake?

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Cast:

Romina Küper – Lise

Jakob D`Aprile – Timo

Ursula Staack – Frau Mettner

Sofia Troncoso Barcelo – Emma

Tom Keune – Lises Vater Peter

Gina Henkel – Lises Mutter Jenny

Arno Sudermann – Herr Fleck

Luis Krawen – Eismaskottchen

Script:

Antonia Walther

Yael Pieren

Camera:

Lukas Eylandt

Editing:

Lisa Friedhofen

Producer:

Lisa Roling

Sound:

Darius Shahidifar

Frank Behnke

Jonas Behrens

Music:

Matija Strnisa

Henrik von Kathen

David Hadenfeldt

Film info

Direction:

Antonia Walther

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 Stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

11

Rite of Spring

The enthusiastic young director Flori rehearses an off-theatre production of Igor Stravinsky’s revolutionary ballet „The Rite of Spring“. She is dissatisfied with the performance of her much older soloist Helen who seems unable to accept the role of the female sacrifice who literally dances herself to death in an act of devotion. Flori therefore uses manipulating directing strategies to force Helen into her part as the victim and thus the reality of the play and the reality of the rehearsals begin to mix.

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Cast:

Jella Haase

Effi Rabsilber

Script:

Steffen Köhn

Henrika Kull

Jonas Zimmermann

Camera:

Phillip Kaminiak

Producer:

Henrika Kull

Music:

Igor Stravinsky

Film info

Direction:

Steffen Köhn

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

Arri Alexa

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

Cinemascope

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

11